Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:35:38PM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote: > Hi, folks > > I think I have found a bug in bin/arch, but I imagine someone has found it > before. Also, I have run into an architectural limit and would like to > change a constant to fix it, if possible. As you found out, there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:38:05 +0200 Stefaans Mostert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would also like to have my recent discovery(browser) recorded in the > faq It could happen to someone else. Then please add it. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my met

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-03 Thread Stefaans Mostert
i would also like to have my recent discovery(browser) recorded in the faq It could happen to someone else. Stefaans On Monday 03 June 2002 23:30, Scott Courtney wrote: > On Sunday 02 June 2002 01:03 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > How about adding a section to the FAQ with this data? > > > > http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-03 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Scott Courtney wrote: > > On Sunday 02 June 2002 01:03 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > How about adding a section to the FAQ with this data? > > > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > I'll be glad to. What's the procedure for submitting this, and to whom do I > send the text? Or is it an

[Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-03 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 01:03 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > How about adding a section to the FAQ with this data? > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py I'll be glad to. What's the procedure for submitting this, and to whom do I send the text? Or is it an open process where I can just post it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-02 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 02:35:00 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BINGO! The culprit is unmasked! How about adding a section to the FAQ with this data? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-02 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:00 am, LuKreme wrote: > On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 09:21 PM, Scott Courtney wrote: > > On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:59 pm, LuKreme wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, how did you split the mbox? I have about 1200 emails > >> I > >> want to add to the archive. > > > > I wrote

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-02 Thread LuKreme
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 09:21 PM, Scott Courtney wrote: > On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:59 pm, LuKreme wrote: >> Out of curiosity, how did you split the mbox? I have about 1200 emails >> I >> want to add to the archive. > > I wrote a little "awk" program to split them into 80-message chunks.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-02 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 02:35 am, Scott Courtney wrote: > By slightly I mean, among other things, that it wraps > the header lines in a way that appears incompatible with RFC 822. The Perl > script that extracts these pages has no way of knowing what Yahoo has done > to the original data. > > I use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 02:06 am, Scott Courtney wrote: > I'm not sure if this is "the" problem, but it is certainly "a" problem. The > parser in Pipermail chokes on headers that look like this: > > Received: from blah blah blah > by blah blah blah > Received: from some other thing > by some other

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 01:34 am, Scott Courtney wrote: > I'll post to the list when I have more definitive info. Okay...more data. I'm not sure if this is "the" problem, but it is certainly "a" problem. The parser in Pipermail chokes on headers that look like this: Received: from blah blah blah

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:26 am, Jon Carnes wrote: > Interestingly enough, I imported about 6000 messages using "arch" on > Mailman v2.010 just a few months ago. All in one shot. It took about 10+ > minutes but it worked beautifully I'm reaching the conclusion that *something* is broken in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:26 am, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Saturday 01 June 2002 09:35 pm, Scott Courtney wrote: > > I am trying to import large numbers of messages (several hundred, to as > > many as 900 for one of my lists) into Mailman from mbox files. I can only > > do about 80 at a time with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Jon Carnes
On Saturday 01 June 2002 09:35 pm, Scott Courtney wrote: > I am trying to import large numbers of messages (several hundred, to as > many as 900 for one of my lists) into Mailman from mbox files. I can only > do about 80 at a time with the "arch" program. Interestingly enough, I imported about 6

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:59 pm, LuKreme wrote: > Out of curiosity, how did you split the mbox? I have about 1200 emails I > want to add to the archive. I wrote a little "awk" program to split them into 80-message chunks. Here is the source code: BEGIN LISTING *** #!/usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread LuKreme
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 07:35 PM, Scott Courtney wrote: > for a in -split-*.mbox; do > cat $a >> archives/private/.mbox/.mbox > bin/arch > cron/nightly_gzip > done Out of curiosity, how did you split the mbox? I have about 1200 emails I want to add to the archive. I coul

[Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-01 Thread Scott Courtney
Hi, folks I think I have found a bug in bin/arch, but I imagine someone has found it before. Also, I have run into an architectural limit and would like to change a constant to fix it, if possible. *** Part One: Architectural Limit I am trying to import large numbers of messages (several hundre